I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
“It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.”
“Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.”